Craig R. McClanahan wrote: > It is OK for web applications to start threads -- as long as the web > application cleans up after itself when the application is shut down (the > easiest way to detect that is to create a ServletContextListener and wait > for the contextDestroyed() method of your listener to be called). > > The JVM running Tomcat shuts down when all non-daemon threads have been > killed. Tomcat properly cleans up all the threads that *it* creates -- it > is up to your application to do the same.
I can backport the "-force" option from 3.3 - basically save the PID and then use kill if tomcat doesn't shut down gracefully. Fact is many apps are not cleaning up - and having the whole server hunged and unable to restart for one bad app is not good. Costin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
